Become a Member
World

Google helps probe into online hate

May 31, 2013 10:00

By

Zoe Winograd,

Zoe Winograd

1 min read

The Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA) has published the results of a two-year investigation into hate on the internet.

An ICCA sub-committee called the Internet Hate Task Force presented its findings in Jerusalem this week.

ICCA members Yuli Edelstein and Christopher Wolf conducted the investigation, which involved parliamentarians from a variety of countries, representatives of internet giants such as Google and Facebook, scholars and experts on online hate.

The Task Force recommended that the ICCA create mechanisms to enforce comprehensive policies on hate speech and to establish a “clear, user-friendly process for allowing users to report hate speech”. As a result of its findings, the Task Force has created a more permanent Anti-Cyberhate Working Group to address the issues surrounding cyberhate.

To get more news, click here to sign up for our free daily newsletter.

Editor’s picks